Ancient Mysteries

Documents

By Patrick Chouinard. The revelation in the early 1990s of Caucasian mummies unearthed in the Tarim Basin in Xinjiang, China, has rewritten the history of migrations between West and East. Genetic testing confirms that the original people were not of Mongoloid origin.

By Philip Coppens. When artefacts unearthed at Glozel, France, in the mid-1920s didn't fit the accepted scholarly explanation of human prehistory in that region, archaeologists engaged in a bitter battle that has still not seen a clear winner.

By Philip Coppens. A system of tunnels and caves beneath Ecuador and Peru is reputed to hold an ancient treasure-house of artefacts including two libraries, one containing inscribed metal books and the other storing tablets of crystal.